Johann Sebastian Bach

I'm hardly the first musician whose heart has been touched by Bach's music, and I won't be the last.
I've played all of his harpsichord music at one time or another, and started to record it.
Then a creep rubber-banded the tempi, pretended they were his and were played on a piano,
legally copyrighted the results in the USA, and threatened legal action against sites that refused
to carry them.

One of them was the recording I made for my daughter just before she died of brain cancer.
He removed the prayer for her that I had placed in the recording.
The sites that carry his files know what happened, and don't care.

Two brief notes that are relevant to my recordings:
- Bach did not invent a tuning scale, nor did he compose for equal-tempering.
He wrote for a wohltemperierte, a 'good' tempering, specifically
tunings
similar to that we call Werkmeister III today. What he invented was equal-tempered
composing, the techniques of controlling consonance so that music could have a
consistent style in all keys while remaining in tune on harpsichord or organ.
- Bach was aware of the piano, in fact he was agent for a piano maker during his
later years. Further, although I play the Italian Concerto with cross-manual
technique common to German organists of the time, it bears strong evidence of having
been written for pianoforte.